a powerful blast rocks the syrian capital while russia makes another push for a diplomatic solution to the crisis claiming the western determination to oust president assad is directly peace efforts. and we're looking back at the week's top stories on our t.v. hurricane sandy leaks havoc across the northeastern united states leading up to one hundred dead millions without power and shaking up the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked either in aid strikes in security headquarters in tripoli a car bomb detonates in benghazi. in truth under attack in greece a journalist show solidarity with whistleblowers who say they're being silenced for

trying to expose government along. two am in moscow i met très a taking bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t an explosion in syria's capital is wounded at least eleven people the blast happened near heavily guarded military and government buildings no one's admitted to the attack but all titling militant groups have been behind recent similar incidents meanwhile there's been another drive toward a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict is russia's foreign minister met with u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi dr ali mohamed editor in chief of the syria tribune says no so a resolution can solve the crisis while the west seems determined to oust president assad. the west. should dictate the outcome of this. sagal there

will be no solution because they will their requirements is to out somebody who is for our full and who enjoys a lot of support from the syrian people and the syrian army more importantly insisting on having him removed i mean since to see one war and this can lead to being anything good to the syrian people the russian diplomacy has been very active trying to find a political solution to the syrian crisis and this was unfortunately missed it this year from nato nations troops to try to convince everybody that. the new syria will be a syria for for everybody all of its components and one of these performances as if the supporters there is obviously too little what's going on is the u.s. will try it for more than if there is a show and more weapons to their balls more and more mess across more events and the other one is by russia where everybody where are mr liberals and everybody in

the ocean diplomacy are asking people to start stop fighting and start talking and start negotiating and to start their way to find common ground from where we stand the syrian people it's it's only diplomacy that mr lavrov is supporting is what could bring a solution. down to the wire in the u.s. presidential race and while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots early voting those in new york are lining up for fuel rations and blankets thanks to hurricane sandy much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after the so-called super storm ripped through archie's marina port has more on the political fallout of the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power with the death. expected to

surpass one hundred president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response to my a lot of faith and fema i think he'll do ok that was the president flying overhead but. he's my man. vote for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop their political campaigning.

before. being very close but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days the traffic lights do not work and most businesses have remained closed city officials say that power will be restored to the borough by election day the same promise has not been made to millions of voters living in other parts of new york and nearby states on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans

disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth that's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in of new yorkers on election day . is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. regardless of who wins the election tuesday washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover the damage sandy did and it's not likely to come from cuts to the military the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other nation and in these hard times observers say the money could be put to better

use. there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in this war is over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union and there are in this area wars that happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming

debt. contrary to what much of the mainstream media shows there are alternatives to the republican and democrat believe us presidential politics we've been bringing you extensive coverage of third party candidates plans and policies that continues monday when we have host their final debate live from washington. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power of the. u.s. if america changes trucks this election will close god monday november fifth on our teeth. militiamen in libya's capital have set the supreme committee had six supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it has followed a series of sporadic gun battles outside the building our middle east correspondent paula slayer has. well a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around

the libyan security cave courses building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and if they're killing themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves to the point where i can see that security building is false and next to the tripoli central hospital and some of the what it's from this gun battle has the hospital was also on sunday morning today was a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we not hearing any reports as of the actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to the building has been talking just for you and they are in number of shattered windows now one of those comes more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the

eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about the hospitality of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil and so they want their own autonomy their one to many to the owner of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since we saw revolution ousted the former you were in the gadhafi and what. is the polarized nation of people colorization sentence for people wanting gun battles on the streets we also know that weeks now the city of bani when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction yet are of a pan african newswire says the revolutions turn the clock back for libya by several decades. historically that are during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a time. colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different regions of things on the south. and the west and of course or annika in the east

and as a result of the independence movement in libya after nine hundred fifty one and of course after the seizure of power about gadhafi and his cohorts in one nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all of that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of sexual conflicts inside the country. still the gun this hour wiki leaks could vanish from the radar america's library of record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you see when you search for anything linked to wiki leaks wants to weigh its opposition get its promise heavy response for ignoring the government's ban on public gatherings despite keeping its protests peaceful this and more after a break. usually

the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately miss barbara lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction when she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is that cruel economic practices can affect us all even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something about them but they shouldn't throw you out of your home that you paid for. for years just for getting cancer no one shift to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken

away after years and years of payment just because they got sick and america i thought we believed in private property not eternally rented from big banks but that's just my opinion. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture. two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power. because if america changes trunks to a selection of clothes god monday november fifth one or two.

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all you need is your mobile device to watch obscene any time. fifteen minutes past the hour now thanks for staying with us here on r t a greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of his country's potential tax evaders was acquitted thursday but another still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout sorties peter all of our reports the trend in greece seems to be ruled out those who reveal the wrongdoing rather than those doing the wrong. is the greek government using bully tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens the council list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly

influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in suisse bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of it for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt cartoon characters who deceive the public much naming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political social and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. unemployment we have a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is. there are there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on

government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit i'm. some of the same members of the frustrations have been closed to any voice of the opposition and the media goes restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state but vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names then what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals yet they tell the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to come up with evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable. the arrest of

a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that democratic rights rode it here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. greece has its work cut out of this apparently needs to introduce another hundred fifty changes to its financial policies to please international creditors investment advisor patrick young though thinks it's a futile effort. alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had a alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well not going to the troika of lenders that they're imagining one hundred fifty eight impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cut the economy or come back in many

different ways of course not they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty it's alarmed alice in wonderland economics. the u.s. is literally a racing wiki leaks from memory with the national archives banning any search that includes the whistleblowing organizations name civil rights groups joined by librarians are unhappy seeing such blatant censorship as akin to george orwell's ministry of truth. leader of the u.k. pirate party sees little good in the bat. the mission of the library of congress is to to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any nine re shortly should be to share that knowledge well since frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still censorship and censorship rules actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that united states and its very quick to criticize

states abroad stepping on printed speech would seem able to hold the same standards at home we can see how blind the increase in political whistleblowing both to journalism and the democracy. protesters have defied coates' ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month with reports that thousands are demonstrating against new voting rules it was a peaceful rally but police still resorted to stun grenades and smoke bombs the opposition claims changes in the electoral system give advantage to the pro-government candidates in next month's vote bahrain also bad public gatherings this week but it didn't stop hundreds of pro-reform it from spreading their message violence is rising twenty one months after dozens of people were killed and thousands arrested when the arab spring pro-democracy uprising was heavily suppressed by bahraini security forces geo political analyst eric draitser thinks

the gulf monarchies confidently take undemocratic measures feeling the support of the us. that the government is scarify a look at the protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain and we see the same around the arab world more generally and kuwait looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining our maintaining control of that country unless they're able to successfully suppress the energy. repress the opposition please our client states of the united states bahrain is the u.s. fifth fleet the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in both wars against iraq kuwait is very much dependent on saudi arabia and the united states and so all of this is part of a geo political calculus that us that germany us does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as italy as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region. stargazers now have a chance to spot

a manmade moral hold the night sky with their own eyes get a tip to see the space station with nasa text alerts telling you when the i.s.a.'s is flying overhead the details online plus a prize for the pied piper who can read a small south african town where rats are on the rampage on our website we'll tell you the bounty for being a robot terminator. finally in the news block some of russia's most radical political groups were out in force sunday from diehard nationalists now right fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands joining marches chanting against immigration israel islam and all things foreign cafe not was watching the crowds in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the law part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes

hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists and that that hatred so it's a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd the permit us for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers a lot of force a massive police presence here as well but so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow we have to keep in mind that this is the play of swastikas is of course banned and russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people detained in the urals city if you could to the inboard or taking part of an unauthorized nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight

frankly we've seen a lot of nationalist flags sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live and there's braving the of course the far right extremists as massacred seventy seven people in norway. and still to come a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement after a short break stay with us. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters on ten centimeters shorter. as of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic.

in the nineteenth fifty's these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients. and their lives in the goal when professing designed his first brain. parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller in the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novikov who operated on many of them says it

usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought

me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i hear guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still would want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took to told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

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my name is dennis i made this movie and there are a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has experts on all those things and more not really one of them i'm happily married husband a father of two fantastic children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that the think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company or paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where.